
TTILE: Authoritarian Persuasion at Home and Abroad: The Partial Effectiveness of Foreigner Influencers in Propaganda Work
AUTHORS: Siyu Liang & Lachlan McNamee
DATE: Feb 6, 2026
REQUIRED SOFTWARE: R (version 4.2.2 or above)



REPLICATION SCRIPTS:

clean_data_CN.R:
	- Loads raw survey data from the China survey experiment and generates the processed dataset survey_final_CN.rds.

clean_data_US.R:
	- Loads raw survey data from the U.S. survey experiment and generates the processed dataset survey_final_US.rds.

main_result.R:
	- Produces main tables and figures from the study. 
	- Table 2, Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 4.

Appendix.Rmd:
	- Produces all tables and figures in the appendix.

INPUT DATASETS:

survey_CN.xlsx:
	- Raw survey data from the China study. All identifying information has been removed.

survey_US.csv:
	- Raw survey data from the U.S. study. All identifying information has been removed.

survey_final_CN.rds:
	- Processed survey data from the China study.
	- Generated by clean_data_CN.R.
	- Used in main_result.R and Appendix.Rmd

survey_final_US.rds:
	- Processed survey data from the U.S. study. 
	- Generated by clean_data_US.R.
	- Used in main_result.R and Appendix.Rmd

Notes: 
1. For the China and U.S. surveys, we removed potentially personally identifiable variables.
2. For the video and audio analysis in Appendix D, to protect the privacy of the interviewees, we are unable to publicly release the recorded videos or the associated code.
